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Billy Vera
Billy Vera (William McCord, Jr., born 1944), American soul singer-songwriter of "At This Moment" (No. 1, 1987, via Family Ties), Judy Clay duets, Grammy-winning liner notes, actor and music historian.
Billy Vigar
Billy Vigar (2003–2025), English centre forward, Arsenal academy 2017–2024, later Hastings United and Chichester City; died aged 21 after hitting a perimeter wall in a match at Wingate & Finchley.
Billy Vunipola
Billy Vunipola (Viliami Vunipola), English rugby union number eight, 1.91 m, 128 kg; Saracens 2013-2024 (194 games, five Premiership, three European titles), 75 England caps, now Montpellier, contracted to 2027.
Billy W. Lewis, Jr.
Billy Wayne Lewis, Jr. (born 1978) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Alabama since 2025, nominated by President Trump.
Billy Wagner
Billy Wagner (William Edward Wagner, born 1971), nicknamed Billy the Kid, is a Hall of Fame left-handed closer for the Astros, Phillies, Mets, Red Sox, and Braves with 422 saves, elected in 2025 on his final BBWAA ballot.
Billy Warlock
Billy Warlock (William Alan Leming, born 1961, Gardena, California) is a retired American actor known as Eddie Kramer on Baywatch, Frankie Brady on Days of Our Lives (1988 Daytime Emmy), and A.J. Quartermaine on General Hospital; now a ski school supervisor.
Billy Waugh
Billy Waugh (William Dawson Waugh) was an American Special Forces soldier and CIA paramilitary officer whose career spanned from the Korean War to Afghanistan in 2001.
Billy West
Billy West (William Richard Werstine, born 1952, Detroit) is an American voice actor known for Ren & Stimpy, Doug, Futurama's Fry and Zoidberg, Space Jam's Bugs Bunny, and the Red M&M.
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (1906–2002), Austrian-born American writer-director of Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment; six Oscars, exile from Nazi Germany, partnerships with Brackett and Diamond.
Billy Wilder filmography
Billy Wilder filmography: the films written and directed by Austrian-born American filmmaker Billy Wilder (1906-2002), from Mauvaise Graine (1934) and The Major and the Minor (1942) through The Apartment (1960) to Buddy Buddy (1981), spanning noir, comedy and drama.
Billy Williams
Billy Williams (born 1938, Whistler, Alabama), "Sweet Swingin' Billy," Cubs left fielder 1959–1974 and Oakland A's 1975–1976; 2,711 hits, 426 home runs, 1961 NL Rookie of the Year, 1972 NL batting champion, 1,117-game streak, Hall of Fame 1987.
Billy Wirth
Billy Wirth (William E. Wirth), American actor, model, producer and director born 1962 in New York City; best known as Dwayne in The Lost Boys (1987) and for directing MacArthur Park (2001).
Billy Zane
Billy Zane (born 1966, Chicago; born William George Zane Jr.) is an American actor and painter known for Cal Hockley in Titanic (1997), The Phantom (1996), Dead Calm (1989), Twin Peaks, and playing Marlon Brando in Waltzing with Brando (2024).
Bilmak Raion
Bilmak Raion (Більмацький район), formerly Kuybysheve Raion, was a district of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Bilmak; renamed in 2016 decommunization and abolished in the 2020 reform into Pologivskyi Raion.
Bilmece
Bilmece is the anonymous riddle of Turkish folk literature, a question-and-answer genre that hides a thing's name behind metaphors the listener must solve, recorded since the 11th century.
Bilobectomy
Bilobectomy is a thoracic surgical procedure removing two adjacent lobes of one lung, essentially a right-sided operation, first performed by Churchill in 1933 to treat lung cancer.
Bilocality
Bilocality is a quantum information theory assumption about correlations among three observers, Alice, Bob, and Charlie, connected by two independent sources, with Bob receiving a share from each.
Bilocation
Bilocation is the claimed simultaneous presence of one person, body and soul, in two distinct places at once, a concept arising from Catholic theology of the Eucharist.
Bilotserkivska Miskrada
Bilotserkivska Miskrada (Білоцерківська міська рада), Bila Tserkva City Council, is the urban council of Bila Tserkva, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, governing a 394.7 km² hromada of about 219,000 people; distinct from the rural Bilotserkivska hromada in Poltava Oblast.
Biloxi Blues
Biloxi Blues is a 1988 American comedy-drama directed by Mike Nichols and written by Neil Simon from his Broadway play, starring Matthew Broderick as a Brooklyn recruit in 1945 Army basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico, with a 2020 population of 49,449 and an economy built on casinos, tourism, seafood, and Keesler Air Force Base.
Bilquis Evely
Bilquis Evely (born 1990, São Paulo) is a Brazilian comic artist known for Wonder Woman, The Dreaming, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow with Tom King, and Helen of Wyndhorn; 2025 Eisner winner, first Brazilian to win.
BiLSTM-CRF model
The BiLSTM-CRF model is a neural sequence labeling method in natural language processing that pairs a bidirectional LSTM encoder with a conditional random field layer for tagging.
Bilt
Bilt (Bilt Technologies, Inc.) is a New York fintech company that lets renters earn loyalty points on rent through a landlord network and a co-branded credit card.
Bilt Rewards
Bilt Rewards is an American loyalty and payments platform, founded by Ankur Jain and launched in 2021, best known for the Bilt Mastercard that earns points on rent with no transaction fee.
Biltmore Estate
Biltmore Estate, also called America's Largest Home, is an 8,000-acre private estate in Asheville, North Carolina, built for George Washington Vanderbilt II and completed in 1895; its 250-room chateau by Richard Morris Hunt is the largest privately owned US home.
Biltong
Biltong, a South African salted, vinegar-cured, air-dried ready-to-eat meat made from beef or game strips; distinguished from jerky by no cooking step, vinegar curing, and typical 4–8% salt content.
Bilvadi Gutika
Bilvadi Gutika (Bilwadi Gutika, Vilwadi Gutika) is an Ayurvedic Formulary of India polyherbal tablet led by Aegle marmelos, used for poisoning, bites, indigestion, and fever, with studied antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory activity.
Bilvadi Leha
Bilvadi leha (Bilvādi leha; Vilwadi Lehyam) is a classical Ayurvedic semisolid avaleha confection of Aegle marmelos root decoction boiled with old jaggery and nine spice powders, indicated for anorexia, digestive impairment, salivation, and vomiting, dose 6 g.
Bilyal Makhov
Bilyal Makhov (Билял Махов), Russian super-heavyweight wrestler born 1987 in Nalchik; three-time freestyle world champion (2007, 2009, 2010), 2015 double-style Worlds bronze medalist, London 2012 upgraded gold, later doping-disqualified, signed but never fought in UFC.